Elizabeth McCullough

Elizabeth McCullough was the wife of Prime Minister Francis Urquhart.

Biography
Elizabeth McCullough was the daughter of whiskey magnate William McCullough, and she married Francis Urquhart in 1960. The two of them lived in an estate in Lyndhurst, Hampshire, and McCullough was a "Lady Macbeth" figure behind her husband, having a great deal of power over him. After Prime Minister Henry Collingridge overlooked Urquhart for a Cabinet position in 1990, she persuaded him to remove Collingridge and take office himself. She also suggested that he have an affair with journalist Mattie Storin in order to manipulate her into helping him seize power, and she gave him the idea to kill press consultant Roger O'Neill. She remained his closest advisor until 2002, when McCullough, who was having an affair with her husband's bodyguard, decided to have her husband assassinated to spare him the shame of exposure, resignation, trial, life imprisonment, and historical damnation (his opponents were close to uncovering his shady past). Urquhart died in her arms, and she assured her husband that he was safe now that he was dying. She was created Countess Urquhart following her husband's death.